Dr. Abraham Palmer spoke at the School of Medicine Seminar Series at the University of Utah on Tuesday November 28th, 2017. His talk was titled “Using the quantitative genetics toolbox to identify new ways to treat mental illness.”
The Second Shaanxi Province Silk Road Forum of Young Scholars was held on November 15-17, 2017 in Xi’an, China. Dr. Jianjun Gao was invited to present his research with a talk entitled, “A cost-effective pipeline of genome-wide SNP calling from Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) data of HS rats.”
The article written by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige entitled “The genetics of human personality” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author on the paper.
Congratulations, Sandra!
The article, “Genetic Analysis of Impulsive Personality Traits: Examination of A Priori Candidates and Genome-wide Variation,” is in press and will be published in Psychiatry Research. Drs. Abraham Palmer & Jianjun Gao are co-authors, along with Joshua Gray, James MacKillop, Jessica Weafer, Kyle Hernandez, and Harriet de Wit.
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige gave a talk at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics entitled, “Genome-Wide Association Study of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) Scores in an Unselected Cohort of 20,328 Research Participants of European Ancestry: Rs41973904 and Beyond.” The conference took place in Orlando, Florida on October 13-17, 2017.
Congratulations, Sandra!
Congratulations to Yu-yu for setting a new American record and unofficially breaking a world record in weight lifting! He deadlifted 340kg, which is 15kg over the current world record.
Check out the article about him here!
The article written by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige entitled “Genome-wide association study of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) scores in 20,328 research participants of European ancestry” was accepted for publication in Addiction Biology. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author on the paper. Read the article here.
Great work, Sandra!
Dr. Amelie Baud has joined the Palmer Lab! She is a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellow at EMBL – EBI in the UK and Visiting Scholar at UCSD. Amelie’s research focuses on understanding how genetic variants in an individual can influence traits of another individual (social genetic effects, SGE). In the Palmer Lab she will be investigating whether the gut microbiome mediates SGE using data from the P50 Heterogeneous Stock rats project. Welcome to the lab, Amelie!
Graduate student Alex Gileta finally reunites with the Palmer lab in sunny San Diego. After a year and a half apart (studying at the University of Chicago), he decided he just couldn’t live without us and will be here until he finishes his dissertation. Welcome to San Diego, Alex!
Natalia Gonzales defended her thesis, “Integrative genetic analysis of behavioral and metabolic traits in an advanced intercross line of mice” on September 6th and it was approved by her committee. Congratulations, Dr. Gonzales!
